Saturday Night Showcase: History Of The Home Video Format Wars

From VHS to streaming online, the history of home video is quite interesting to see how far technology has come to bring us movies, television shows, documentaries, and whatever else. While there are minor format you may never have heard of, a few became dominant and some of those fought other formats to survive. Whatever happened to laserdiscs and HD-DVDs, and those are just the formats you’ve most likely heard of. What caused the rise of the video rental store, and their downfall. Is it better to have a physical copy or just stream it from the internet?

The crew at Midnight’s Edgeare joined by Bill Hunt, founder of the website The Digital Bits, in an examination of the history of home video entertainment. Note that there may be some swearing in this one, but it doesn’t take away from how business and technology affected how we consume video entertainment.